Amazon S3 region transfer?

Fabien picture Fabien · Jan 5, 2011 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

How I can transfer the content of a S3 bucket of a specific region to another S3 bucket of another specific region? Please provide the simplest way and detailed steps if you can.

Answer

Geoff Appleford picture Geoff Appleford · Jan 7, 2011

You can do this with the AWS Console or one of the commercial tools such as Bucket Explorer.

You need to select the files you want to transfer, then copy/cut and paste them into the new bucket. This works for buckets in the same region or different regions.